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Rice Ph.D. student Patrick Phelps atop Chile's Cordon Caulle volcano in March 2022

Science atop an active volcano

August 15, 2022

A Rice graduate student’s video and blog show what it’s like to conduct research atop an active volcano.

The Ion. Photo courtesy of The Ion.

Ion and Houston Methodist to open health care innovation tech hub

August 15, 2022

Houston Methodist has joined the Ion as the first health care-centric partner in the growing innovation hub.

Rice University researchers have modelled a key mechanism by which DNA replicates. The study could help identify new targets to treat disease.

Rice models moving ‘washers’ that help DNA replicate

August 9, 2022

Rice researchers model a key mechanism by which DNA replicates. The study could help identify new targets to treat disease.

Tiny "drug-factory" implants from the lab of Rice University bioengineer Omid Veiseh

Rice, Baylor developing implants to heal heart attack injuries

August 8, 2022

Rice and Baylor College of Medicine are creating tiny implants that can heal damage from heart attacks.

Peter Nordlander and Naomi Halas

Halas, Nordlander win prestigious Eni Energy Transition Award

August 8, 2022

Rice’s Naomi Halas and Peter Nordlander have won the prestigious 2022 Eni Energy Transition Award.

Rice University researcher Julia Saltz leads a team that received a NSF grant to research fruit fly evolution.

Team led by Rice’s Saltz wins grant to examine environment’s impact on fruit flies

August 8, 2022

Rice University researcher Julia Saltz and two co-principal investigators have received a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to investigate and model the underlying factors of genetic variation in trait development in fruit flies across environments and over generations.

A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.

CDC names Houston Health Department, Rice a wastewater epidemiology Center of Excellence

August 5, 2022

A system to track COVID-19 through Houston’s wastewater became the basis of an epidemiology center that has now earned special designation from the U.S. government and $1 million in its first year of federal funding.

Rice University scientists and engineers develop a one-step method involving sandpaper and powder to make robust superhydrophobic materials.

Water can’t touch this sanded, powdered surface

August 4, 2022

Rice scientists and engineers develop a one-step method involving sandpaper and powder to make robust superhydrophobic materials.

Bioengineering PhD student Amanda Nash and Professor Omid Veiseh with jars of bead-like implants like the ones they created to treat cancer

Rice lab’s ‘drug factory’ implants cleared for human trials

August 3, 2022

Federal regulators have approved the first human clinical trial of cancer-killing “drug factory” implants created by Rice bioengineers.

Cherukuri

Cherukuri named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation

August 2, 2022

Paul Cherukuri, the executive director of the Institute of Biosciences and Bioengineering, has been named Rice University’s first vice president for innovation. 

A survey of Texas college and high school coaches, trainers and athletic directors suggests many are not taking climate change into account as they plan their programs’ futures.

Most but not all Texas coaches say they’ll plan for climate change

August 1, 2022

A survey of Texas college and high school coaches, trainers and athletic directors suggests many are not taking climate change into account as they plan their programs’ futures.

Daniel Gorczynski using the field-data gathering app he wrote for Microsoft's HoloLens

VegSense makes sense for forest studies

August 1, 2022

Rice ecologists have created open-source software to rapidly gather field data with Microsoft’s mixed reality headset.

Ang Chen and Eugene Ng

Next-generation networks with fast changes and increased security

July 31, 2022

Rice computer scientists are leading the development of programmable networks that respond to change in seconds without downtime.

Ramesh

Ramesh named Rice University’s vice president for research

July 29, 2022

Ramamoorthy Ramesh, a condensed matter physicist and materials scientist with more than 25 years in academia, industry, national labs and government service, has been named Rice University’s vice president for research. 

Picture of file with felony document and gavel.

Felony convictions hinder efforts to access stable housing even if no prison time is served, study shows

July 25, 2022

Even if they’ve never served time in prison, people who have felony convictions still have difficulty accessing stable housing, according to new research from a Rice University sociologist.

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